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From: count@snafu.muncca.fi (Bror 'Count' Heinola)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5-A FTP install problem
Date: 3 Jun 1995 18:42:39 GMT
Organization: Muncca UNIX (technical mismanagement)
Lines: 33
Message-ID: <3qqaev$jbg@wizard.muncca.fi>
References: <marcus.94.00CEA336@ccelab.iastate.edu> <3qj0c1$ak0@agate.berkeley.edu> <3qke9a$n8v@wizard.muncca.fi> <3qlrip$n8a@agate.berkeley.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: snafu.muncca.fi
Keywords: 2.0.5 ALPHA FTP install

In article <3qlrip$n8a@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>In article <3qke9a$n8v@wizard.muncca.fi>,
>Bror 'Count' Heinola <count@snafu.muncca.fi> wrote:
>>	I had to bump ftp.funet.fi mirror from daily to hourly because
>>	I couldn't get anything out...Still can't, connection is breaking
>>	up all the time. :(
>> ..
>>	How about them dedicated mirroring accounts? Should help somewhat.
>
>Huh?
>
>I don't see how a dedicated account is going to save your connections
>from breaking.  I'm afraid that TCP/IP is fairly democratic, and anon
>users get killed just as readily as non-anon users.. :-)

	No, it doesn't save them from breaking, but it makes it easier to
	get *in* on the first try :-)

>In any case, your site is already in the mirror permissions list for
>fast-track access to the bits but it's clearly, as I said, not going to
>help you get around network instability problems!

	Duh, change your backbone service :)




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